Sack-holder.



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sAcK HOLDER.

, (Application filed. June 16, 1900.)

H0 IudeL) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. CARNEY, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

SACK-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657.644, dated September 11, 1900.

Application filed June 16,1900

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. CARNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sack-Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to bagging grain, and more especially to that class of devices used in connection therewith known as bagholders; and the object of the same is to produce improvements therein.

To this end theinvention consists in a hopper havinga bead and hook of peculiar shape for detachably connecting the mouth of the bag or sack therewith, allas hereinafter more fully described and claimed and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Where- 1n- Figure 1 is a perspective view of this device entire. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the hopper and hook. detail of the hook.

In the drawings, 1 is a flat base, such as may stand upon the floor or may be placed upon the platform of an ordinary scale, or it might be the flooritself or the platform itself. From this base rises an upright 2, here shown as square, and around this uprightis loosely fitted a sleeve 3, as of metal. 4 is a hopper carried by this sleeve and constructed with a flaring top depressed at its front edge, as at 5, while the bottom of the hopper is reduced, is about cylindrical, is out off about square, and is provided with an exterior bead 6.

7 is a spiral spring standing vertical and connecting the top of thehopper at the rear with the upper end of the upright.

In Fig. 3 is best seen a hook used in connection with the parts above described. This hook is made of a single piece of wire bent at its center into a hook 10, then both arms bent, as at 11, to form the body, and finally both arms bent outward and then inward at their extremities, as at 12.

13 is a plate bent at its center into a tubular bearing 14, into the ends of which the extremities 12 of the book are sprung. This Fig. 3 is an enlarged Serial Ila. 20,582. \No model.)

dotted lines) is passed around the lower end of the hopper above the head 6 and preferably so high on the body of the hopper that the upper edge of the mouth is above the depressed porlion- 5. The bag-mouth is then drawn tightly around the hopper and bead, and a fold of the loose material is made in front. This fold may be simply laid down against the fabric at the front of the hopper, or it may be thus laid down and carried over the depressed portion 5 and borne against the inner surface of the front of the hopper; but in either event the bill 10 of the hook is then brought forward over the fold and the edge of'the hopper, so as to clamp the bagin place. This operation results in both holding the bag tight around the hopper and also preventing its slipping off the same by reason of the presence of the hook and the bead. The bag is then filled through the hopper in the usual manner, the commodity falling to the bottom of the bag and increasing its size as it is poured in. Such transverse increase naturally shortens the height of the bag, and the spring 7 permits the entire hopper to de scend, its sleeve 3 sliding down the upright. The bag may be tied up before disconnecting it from the hopper or after; but it is obvious that when the hook is thrown back the fold in the fabric is released and the bag-mouth is freed simultaneously from all parts of the hopper.

The parts are of the desired sizes, shapes, proportions, and materials.

Although I have described and prefer to use the sleeve and a spring or some equivalent device for permitting the hopper to have a yertical movement, I do not desire to be limited to a movable hopper.

Particular attention is called to the fact that the bearing 14 of the plate 13 is so located with respect to the depressed edge 5 of the hopper that as the hook is borne forward its bill 10 in passing over the edge5 is sprung a trifle. This results in the grasp of the fold in the bag, as above set forth.

What is-elaimed-as new is- I sprungvsli zhtly'in passing over the depressed 10 In a bag-holder; the colnbinzttioflwilli'the front-edge of tile-hopper, as and for the purhopper having a flared upper end depressed pose set forth. atits front and an exterior bead around its In testimony whereof I affix my signature lower end, and means for supporting the hopin presence of two witnesses.

per; of a plate secured within the hopper at v v GEORGE H. OARNEY. its front and having 2&- bearing; an'dai hoo'k Witnesses: lmving its body pivoted within said bearing J. EDWARD TAYLOR,

and in such location that the bill thereof is SAMUEL R. AVESON. 

